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Published March 21, 2024 • 3 min read

The business impact of migrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Azure

By Jeremy Winter Corporate Vice President, Azure Cloud Native

Microsoft and Red Hat commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM (TEI) study of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure, based on interviews with customers who have migrated their RHEL workloads to Azure. Using the data derived from these interviews, Forrester analysts created a 'composite organization' representative of actual customers and their economic realities.

Compute, Events, Hybrid + Multicloud, Linux Virtual Machines

Published February 15, 2022 • 1 min read

Manage Linux anywhere with improved Azure Hybrid Benefit and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure

By David Dennis Director of Product Marketing, Linux on Azure

For organizations looking to accelerate innovation through improved IT operation and hybrid cloud migration, we’re pleased to announce expanded management capabilities and preview offerings for Linux workloads running on Azure at this year’s Azure Open Source Day.

Announcements, Compute, Linux Virtual Machines

Published August 7, 2019 • 2 min read

High Availability Add-On updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure

By Microsoft Azure

High availability is crucial to mission-critical production environments. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability Add-On provides reliability and availability to critical production services.

Best practices, Hybrid + Multicloud, Key Vault, Linux Virtual Machines, Microsoft Entra ID, Networking

Published April 23, 2019 • 6 min read

Best practices in migrating SAP applications to Azure – part 1

By Will Bratton Principal Program Manager, Azure Global SAP Deployment Engineering

In this blog post we will touch upon the principles outlined in “Pillars of a great Azure architecture” as they pertain to building your SAP on Azure architecture in readiness for your migration.

Best practices, Compute, Linux Virtual Machines

Published February 5, 2019 • 5 min read

Best practices to consider before deploying a network virtual appliance

By Reshmi Yandapalli Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking

A network virtual appliance (NVA) is a virtual appliance primarily focused on network functions virtualization. A typical network virtual appliance involves various layers of four to seven functions like firewall, WAN optimizer, application delivery controllers, routers, load balancers, IDS/IPS, proxies, SD-WAN edge, and more.

AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Compute, Linux Virtual Machines

Published December 4, 2018 • 4 min read

ONNX Runtime is now open source

By Faith Xu Principal Program Manager, AI Frameworks

Today we are announcing we have open sourced Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) Runtime on GitHub. ONNX Runtime is a high-performance inference engine for machine learning models in the ONNX format on Linux, Windows, and Mac.

Compute, Developer Tools, Linux Virtual Machines

Published October 15, 2018 • 2 min read

Azure PowerShell – Cross-platform “Az” module replacing “AzureRM”

By Microsoft Azure

There is a new Azure PowerShell module, built to harness the power of PowerShell Core and Cloud Shell, and maintain compatibility with PowerShell 5.1. Its name is Az.

Compute, Developer Tools, Linux Virtual Machines

Published October 10, 2018 • 2 min read

Microsoft joins Open Invention Network to help protect Linux and open source

By Microsoft Azure

I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft is joining the Open Invention Network (“OIN”), a community dedicated to protecting Linux and other open source software programs from patent risk.

Azure Security Center, Compute, Linux Virtual Machines, Security

Published August 27, 2018 • 8 min read

Azure.Source – Volume 46

By Rob Caron Director, Executive Communications

Keep current on what's happening in Azure, including what's now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.

Announcements, Compute, Linux Virtual Machines

Published August 21, 2018 • 1 min read

DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) for Linux VMs now generally available

By Laxmana Rao Battula Senior Program Manager

Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) in an Azure Linux Virtual Machine (VM) that offers a fast user space packet processing framework for performance intensive applications that bypass the VM’s kernel…

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The business impact of migrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Azure

Manage Linux anywhere with improved Azure Hybrid Benefit and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure

High Availability Add-On updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure

Best practices in migrating SAP applications to Azure – part 1

Best practices to consider before deploying a network virtual appliance

ONNX Runtime is now open source

Azure PowerShell – Cross-platform “Az” module replacing “AzureRM”

Microsoft joins Open Invention Network to help protect Linux and open source

Azure.Source – Volume 46

DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) for Linux VMs now generally available

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